Under the Ice

With Lesley Stahl

Why this story needs to be told

Greenland is more than three times the size of Texas. And 80% of it is covered in ice. Climate scientists didn't used to think melting ice here posed much of a problem. But in the short span of ten years the evidence is mounting that melting glaciers here pose a greater threat to every one of us than anything else happening on the planet.

Lesley Stahl travels to Greenland to learn what melting ice in the Arctic means for the rest of the world.

Introduction

No place on earth has seen the effects of global warming more than the vast mineral-rich Arctic. As the ice melts, oil companies are scrambling to drill vast quantities of oil and gas that used to be shrouded by impenetrable layers of ice. But what happens to the planet if the oil companies get their way and extract the Arctic’s riches?

In Under the Ice, Correspondent Lesley Stahl goes to Greenland to investigate.